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VIDEO ON BAMBOO

CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL FOR THE COMMON MAN

Bamboo is a wonderful plant that can be used for anything from building material to furniture to musical pieces to books and anything and beyond. It can be eaten, woven & used for manufacture. Bamboo is pretty amazing, easily replaces wood and saves the rainforest. Choose bamboo.

BAMBOO BASICS: There are two types, clumping and running.
There are approximately 1500 species of bamboo around the world
Bamboo is found from hot tropical climates to cold mountains
Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world: some species can grow 39” inches in 24 hours.
It is more common for bamboo to grow around 4” in a day. Large timber bamboo like MOSO, Phyllostachys edulis can grow up to 90 feet high and 7” wide Individual bamboo stems, or culms, emerge from the ground at their full diameter and grow to their full height in a single growing season of three to four months. Bamboo flower infrequently, but when they do, that species flower all at the same time globally for the same period of time.

How do I plant / grow bamboo?

1) FROM SEED: it takes about one year depending on species before seedling is ready to be planted.

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How Long Does Bamboo Last? “Bamboo is an excellent building material, and as testimony still stand hundreds of colonial homes of +200 years. Whereas a couple centuries is minor compared to the oldest Chinese bamboo structures said to be 3,000 years old” The Club of Rome.